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...bohemian atmosphere - there are regular art exhibitions as well as weekly jam sessions with local musicians - softens the overall experience, while a city-center location will prove irresistible to guests planning a breakout. Things are even grittier at Latvia's Karosta Prison, karostascietums.lv - a former jail near the Baltic Sea resort of Liepaya. Originally built as a military hospital in 1900, it began housing prisoners during the early days of the Russian Revolution and continued to do so throughout the Nazi occupation, during the Soviet era and right up until 1997, when Latvian authorities released the last detainees. Today...
...Look at his game now, and compare it to when he started 15 years ago," says a Railroad Baron who asked not to be identified. "He used to be a scrappy Mediterranean-and-Baltic guy, the consummate Utilities player. Now he's racking up Boardwalk and Park Place and the greens every time he plays. If he's not loading, then St. James Place and Tennessee Avenue aren't the most-landed on properties...
Monopoly players have cruised the streets of Atlantic City, N.J.--Baltic Avenue? I'll buy it!--since Charles Darrow created the board in 1935. But a new version out this summer has the casino town fuming. Gamemaker Hasbro held an online vote to pick landmarks from 22 U.S. cities for the Here & Now edition--and left Atlantic City out. "We don't have a monopoly on Monopoly," says Jeff Vasser, who heads the city tourist authority. "But we were a little put off." He's sending Hasbro a petition with 5,000 signatures calling for a Here & Now square...
...band, decked out like a group of J.R.R. Tolkien refugees, should represent their placid Nordic nation. But chainsaw-wielding Lordi insists it's not a Satanic group, offering a song called Devil Is a Loser as proof. Final odds: 25-1 Lithuania: LT United We Are the Winners. The Baltic state came in dead last in the 2005 semifinals. Could LT United's entry, which repeats the line, "We are the winners of Eurovision" over and over, be a not-so-subtle attempt at swaying the voting public? There's a fine line between tongue-in-cheek and just plain...
...DIED. LENNART MERI, 76, witty, charismatic first President of independent Estonia, following its 1991 split from the Soviet Union; in Tallinn. A survivor of a Soviet labor camp, he was a leader of Estonia's independence movement from the late 1980s until the Baltic state regained sovereignty. In his two terms as President, he pushed free-market policies and established close ties with...